The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-15
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


been fugitive slaves.
Philip Schembs, Louisville (Ky.) baker,
committed suicide a few days ago while
confined in the county Jail, by cutting his
throat and the main artery in his left arm
with a tin bucket.
Hon. r. Reynolds, of Aberdeen, Miss.
lied few days ago after two months
illness and confinement to his room and
bed.
A Dooly County (Ga.) trapper caught
horned owl recently. Prior to his capture
his owlshp had feasted on ten goslings.
c. n. Fain, of Carrollton, Ga, has in his
possession the inaugural address delivered
by x-Presdent Polk, November IL, 1899,
after his election to the gubernatorial
chair of Tennessee. The address is hand
somely printed on piece of white silk,
1Sx18 inches, and was presented to Cap
tain Fain's grandfather, and will, no
doubt, pass through the hands of many
generations to come, as it is a relic worth
preserving.
A movement among the brakeman of the
Louisville e. Nashville railroad at Birming
ham, Ala, is ON foot which, it is said, will
result in general strike over the whole
road, and also take in men of the Alabama
Great Southern railroad. The trouble
grows out of the refusal of the road to ac-
cede to the petition for pay for delayed
time-eighteen cents an hour being asked
when trains are over an hour late.
The school population of Hot Springs,
Ark, is two thousand.
The landlords of Birmingham, Ala, have
raised rents fifty per cent.
Twenty cotton congresses will be op-
Grated in Mississippi this year.
Monkeytown is the name of new post.
Office in Yazoo County, Miss.
A mill-owner at Ripley, Tenn, ships
weekly 100000 feet of poplar and oak lum-
her to Northern markets.
Fig trees are bearing a second crop Of
fruit near Tallahassee, Fla.
The martins at Martinsville, Va, have
made systematic war upon the English
sparrowS, and have completely driven
them out of the place.
The water from the Daniel spring, Geor-
gia, is said to be a natural hair dye. Bath
ing gray hair with it will change the color
to black.
The smallest man in Tennessee is Daniel
Hance, of Madison County, who, although
thirty-seven years old, is not three feet
high, and weighs only sixty pounds. 1t is
said he has voice like fog horn.
Cotton worms have appeared very gen.
orally throug ghout the counties of South
Alabama, and will do great damage to the
late cotton.
A batch of carrier pigeons liberated at
Little Rock, Ark, recently, flew to New
port, KY, distance of1ive hundred miles,
in eleven hours and five minutes.
William l.. Miller, of Charleston, s. c.,
has two immense iron shells, said to be the
first two shots fired at Battery Wa gner at
the beginning of the war. The shells were
never exploded; they weigh two hundred
pounds each.
Miss Cawhorn, of Carroll County, Tenn,
never learned to walk, and has to be car
ried about like baby. She weighs 700
pounds. She is not lame, but simply
does not know how to use her 10 oTer
limbs.
Fifteen hundred students from the vari-
Gus colleges in Georgia will take part in
and be one of the principal features Of the
parade at Atlanta on the occasion of Pl es-
dent Cleveland's reception,
Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Com
stitutiOn, is said to have been offered by a
lecture manager $4,000 to tell the Nor tn
next winter the story of the New South.
William Aiken, who was Governor o,
South Carolina in 1874, and served three
terms in Congress prior to 1857, died a few
days ago, aged eighty-one years. He
owned more slaves than any other man in
the State before the war, but opposed
secession.
Some months since Colonel Joseph S
Baugh, an Oglethorpe (Ga.) bachelor, ad-
vertised for a wife. He was deluged with
letters from all parts of the United States.
He distributed several of these letters
among his bachelor friends. At least
three weddings will be the result Of this
correspondence.
A negro girl was bitten by a venomous
snake while gathering muscadines in Vine
vile, Ca, few days since. The wound
caused her leg to swell rapidly, but a
prompt application of whisky and turpen-
tine saved her.
Deputy United States Marshals Spurrier,
Young and Graves recently made a raid
on the moonshiners of Clay County, Tenn,
and report the arrest of several Illicit dis
tillers and the destruction of crooked es
tablishments.
John Casteel shot and killed rattle
snake near the Micon gold mine, four miles
northwest of Canton, Ga, last week,
which measured four feet four inches in
length and seven inches around, and had
nine rattles and the inevitable button. He
was an ugly, dangerous shocking fellow
| although he showed no signs of fight.
DIR. J. G. John, missionary secretary OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
states that the returns from the specia
collections for missions during the recent
week of prayer observed throughout the
Southern Methodist Church, have reached
$4,000.
An attempt was made a few nights age
to assassinate Wyatt Denny and Muck
Denny, his son, near New Middleton
Tenn, while the two were returning from
Carthage. A shot was fired at short
range, but missed the men. The wOuld-bt
murderer escaped.
Tinev B. Thompson, a member of the
extensive lumber firm of J. j. Nc
Donough & Co., of Savannah, Ga, lef
the city a few nights ago with 500 OF
the firms money to make tour of some o
the mills and pay off the hands. Nothing
has been heard from him since.
While Mr.. Dick Laton, farmer, was
! returning from church in a wagon will
his two grown daughters, near Adairs
vile, Tenn, a few nights ago, the team
became frightened and ran away, throw
| ing the old man and his two daughter
out. One of the young ladies was killed
instantly, her head being crushed in ;
horrible manner. Mr.. Laton and his othe
daughter was very seriously injured.
Cotton picking goes brayely on.
A review of the earthquake work il
| Charleston, S. c., will show that in tn
past year over 5000 buildings have beer
rebuilt or repaired, and that 271 absolute
| ly new buildings have been erected. Tn
whole cost is 81 1900, 900, of which Charles
| ton snent at least So 900 900